Free on-site gate assessment - hinges, posts, and your LiftMaster or Nice gate operator checked before anything is quoted
The assessment is free and the quote is the invoice.
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Gate repair in Farragut typically runs $180 to $460 for hinge and post corrections, $340 to $1,200 for operator replacement, and $90 to $280 for weld and rust work, with most jobs completed the same day our crew arrives. We work in subdivisions across 37934 every week, from Choto Road west to Virtue Road and down along Campbell Station. If your gate is sagging, grinding, or refusing to open, call (877) 610-2993 and you’ll get a live person who can usually have someone at your driveway within a day.
Farragut gates aren’t like gates in other towns. Most were installed when these subdivisions went in during the 1990s and early 2000s, which means the operators are hitting twenty-five years old and the ornamental ironwork has spent two decades in East Tennessee humidity. We know what that combination does to a gate, because we’ve fixed it in nearly every neighborhood off Kingston Pike and beyond.
Why Gatewood Fence & Gate Is Farragut’s Preferred Gate Repair Company
Hal Gatewood opened this shop in 2001, and his name has been on every invoice since. That matters in Farragut, where a lot of homeowners have already paid a national outfit to “diagnose” a problem over the phone and then got broadsided by a bill that had nothing to do with what they were quoted. We don’t do that. The price you’re quoted is the price you pay, agreed before any work starts.
Farragut neighbors tend to check up on a business before calling. They ask their HOA board. They drive past the shop. Hal’s address is published, his license is public record, and if you want to look him in the eye before he touches your gate, you can do that. The 90-Day Done Right Promise comes in writing with every job, not as fine print. If it isn’t done right, one call brings him back.
When you call Farragut, you get a live person around the clock. Not a voicemail, not a chatbot. The person who picks up knows the difference between a swing gate off Choto Road and a slide gate at a Fox Run entrance, because this is local work handled by local people. We’re also the crew other companies call when a gate has already been “fixed” twice and still won’t move. Our Gate Repair team handles the ones everybody else gave up on.
Our Gate Repair Services in Farragut
Automatic Gate Repair
Twenty-year-old slide operators on original Farragut subdivision entrances wear rack and pinion teeth down until the gate jerks, binds, or simply quits. We see it constantly in communities built out in the late 1990s. Builder-grade units from that era were often 1/2 HP meant for lighter gates, and when an HOA retrofits a keypad or a phone entry system, the motor burns out its capacitor trying to push hardware it was never sized for. We replace the operator, sure, but we also check the rack, the stops, and the electrical load before closing anything up.
Electric Gate Repair
Power problems in Farragut gates usually trace back to the original build. Conduit that should have run from the house or a pedestal to the operator frequently got omitted in the boom era, so we end up trenching a new run. We do it cleanly, to code, and we size the wire for what the gate actually needs, not what was cheapest at the time. Loop detectors, safety edges, photocells: if an electric gate is misbehaving anywhere in 37934, we find it and fix it on site.
Hinge & Post Repair
A gate sags in the hinge post, not in the middle. Farragut ornamental iron hinges rust at the weld point faster than anywhere else in the county, especially within a half mile of Fort Loudoun Lake where summer humidity settles into the metal. Fix the panel without addressing the post and you’ll fix it twice. We re-seat posts, re-pour footings when the original concrete has cracked, and weld the hinge back true so the gate hangs square.
Gate Realignment
When a driveway gate starts scraping pavement or catching on a latch, the panel usually looks fine. The problem is almost always the post lean or a worn hinge barrel. In Farragut’s clay soils, posts shift seasonally with moisture, and a quarter inch at the base becomes a two-inch drop at the latch. We correct alignment at the hinge and the catch, not just by forcing the panel back into place, because forced panels go right back to where they were in a month.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Farragut
We service and stock parts for the operators most common in Farragut subdivisions, including DoorKing, Viking, Ghost Controls, and Elite. A lot of the gates around here still run on units those manufacturers discontinued years ago, and because we’ve been doing this since 2001, we know which salvage boards are reliable and which are yard sale junk. For Farragut customers that often means we can repair operator that another company said had to be replaced entirely. Hal would rather weld in your driveway than haul your gate to a shop. That’s what this business was built on.
Common Gate Repair Problems We See in Farragut Homes
- Operator burnout after winter ice. Freezing rain coats tracks, hinges, and motor housings, and the operator forces itself against ice-locked hardware until it burns out. East Tennessee ice storms do this every year, and Farragut’s elevations make it worse than valley-side communities.
- Worn rack and pinion teeth on slide gates. Subdivision entrance gates that have run since the 1990s develop quiet, even wear until the gate starts stuttering mid-travel. It sounds like a motor problem. It isn’t. The rack needs replacement and the pinion re-meshed.
- Rust at ornamental iron weld points. Summer humidity near Fort Loudoun gets under the powder coating and eats the weld joints. The gate looks fine until the sag starts, and by then the post usually needs to be re-seated in fresh concrete, not just patched.
- Missing conduit from the original build. Farragut’s boom-era developments frequently ran no conduit for a future gate operator. Homeowners who want to automate a manual gate end up with a surface-run Romex line or a solar panel doing the job a proper buried run should have done. We trench it properly and bury it deep enough that a future regrade or snow melt won’t find it.
Pricing for Gate Repair in Farragut, TN
Here’s what Farragut gate work actually costs when we do it. Hinge and post repair runs $180 to $460 depending on whether we’re re-welding an existing post or breaking out and re-pouring a footing. Electric gate repair and operator troubleshooting falls between $120 and $350, including most parts. Full operator replacement on a swing or slide gate runs $340 to $1,200 depending on the unit and the existing wiring. Weld and rust repair is $90 to $280 and usually includes rust conversion, grind-out, and repaint to match. Automatic gate installation where a manual gate exists starts around $1,800 and goes up depending on operator type, power run length, and whether we need to add safety edges or loop detectors for UL 325 compliance.
Every Farragut quote is written, explained, and agreed before anything gets unbolted. You’ll know what it costs before we start. No trip charge inside the county, and $40 off any repair over $200. Seniors and veterans get 10% off permanently. Call (877) 610-2993 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Farragut
Our crews work throughout the Knoxville metro, and we regularly handle gates for customers in Lenoir City, Alcoa, Oak Ridge, and into Knoxville proper. The local knowledge runs deepest in Farragut, where we know the subdivisions, the original builders, and the covenants before we even park the truck. If you’re in a nearby community, call us. We’ll be straight with you about what’s wrong and what it costs to make it right.
Serving Farragut, TN - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Farragut area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Gate Repair in Farragut
If the gate opens but won’t close after a car passes, it’s usually the exit loop detector failing to reset, not the operator. A dead loop or a loop with a broken wire tells the board a car is still sitting on it, and the gate holds open as a safety default. If the gate closes but immediately reopens and flashes, you’re looking at a photocell obstruction or a safety edge fault. Either way we diagnose it on site, usually within the first hour, and most loop detector and photocell fixes run $120 to $280. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll get it sorted before your HOA starts sending letters.
We handle it as standard practice in Farragut, because we’re the ones who’ve been called in to redo work after a covenant violation notice. Farragut’s zoning overlays require operator replacement and new automatic gate installations to be screened from the street, so we routinely build concealed operator posts, match housing finishes to the fence line, and document the original specifications with photographs before anything is removed. We’ll never swap in a visually mismatched operator box. That’s not how Hal works, and it’s not how you pass an HOA walk-through.
The hinge post is what’s failing. In Farragut’s clay soil, footings settle and shift with seasonal moisture, and the post leans just enough to drop the latch side of the gate. The panel itself is almost never bent. We re-seat or re-pour the post footing, weld the hinge barrel true, and the gate comes back square. Trying to jack the panel up and shim the latch only works for a month, because the force that pushed the post over is still there. Sag correction in Farragut runs $180 to $460 and includes whatever welding the hinge needs.
We do, and we’re realistic with you about what solar can handle. A solar opener works for a single-family driveway gate with a modest use cycle and good southern exposure. It does not work as a primary power source for a subdivision entrance gate running forty cycles a day under canopy. In Farragut, the better move is usually trenching a conduit run from the nearest power source because the original build left it out. We’ll quote both options plainly and tell you which one will still be working in five years. Call (877) 610-2993 and we’ll look at the site before you spend any money.
You can, and we do it frequently in the boom-era subdivisions where builders hung ornamental gates without operator prep. The real variables are power, operator sizing, and entrapment protection. Twenty-year-old ornamental iron is heavy, and we need to size the operator for the actual gate weight plus wind load, which means most of these jobs need a 1/2 HP or stronger unit, not a lightweight residential model. We also trench the power run properly, add safety photocells or edges to satisfy UL 325, and match the operator housing to your existing ironwork so the HOA has nothing to flag. Typical cost runs $1,800 to $4,500 depending on the gate, the run, and the chosen operator. We’ll walk you through it line by line before any agreement is signed.
Contact Gatewood Fence & Gate
If your Farragut gate is sagging, stalling, or refusing to open, call (877) 610-2993 and tell the person who answers what it’s doing. You’ll get an honest assessment over the phone, a free in-person quote with no trip charge inside the county, and upfront pricing before any work begins. Hal Gatewood’s name is on the shop and on every invoice, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise is in writing on every job. If you’re in 37934, we’re already nearby, and we’ll show up when we say we will.
Written by Hal Gatewood, Owner at Gatewood Fence & Gate, serving Farragut since 2001.